Thai inspired Salad
Read moreThis salad is Thai inspired – great for a lazy simple but yet healthy weekend salad, or as an idea for your Meatless Monday! This dish I am sharing with you is a simple way to start incorporating more plant-based foods into your lifestyle and it certainly does not have to be boring. Yes, it’s possible to make your own pad Thai-inspired raw vegan salad that is delicious and hearty enough to serve as a main dish. Key is here to use all fresh ingredients including your herbs, enhancing the flavour in this dish with the fresh, quality ingredients, in particular, the cilantro. Believe me, the dried version just does not do the same, so be mindful if you’re using this version. Toasted, crushed or chopped peanuts are traditional in pad Thai noodle dishes, however, I aim to stick to more natural ingredients like keeping the nuts and seeds within its raw natural state. This will save you time and you buy the already activated nuts and seeds from bulk stores like Scoop Whole Foods. Nuts and seeds should always be soaked and dehydrated (or bought already activated) as this allows the sprouting process to take place and allowing the minerals, proteins along with good fats to be absorbed better. It is known to reduce the phytic acid within the bits and seeds and these acids usually bind with minerals and prevent us from digesting them and absorbing all the goodness they have to offer, hence why we activate them. Try this raw food recipe for a delicious and nutritious vegan Pad Thai salad. INGREDIENTS 2 Large Zucchini’s 1 Cup of bean sprouts 1/3 Cup finely chopped celery 2 Small pieces of parsley freshly chopped 1/2 Cup fresh cilantro chopped 1 Red Bell Pepper or yellow pepper (not into peppers and they don’t work for you, then some julienne cut carrots) 1 Tablespoons fresh ginger **optional 1 Lime juiced 1 Lemon juiced 2 Tablespoons of coconut oil 1 Teaspoon of liquid amino’s (Braggs brand) or coconut aminos 1 Tablespoon of tahini paste raw cold-pressed FOR SPRINKLES: (Keep this separate) 2 Tablespoons of nutritional yeast 3 Tablespoons of pine nuts or nut-free sunflower seeds 1 Tablespoon of sesame seeds 1/2 Teaspoon dried chilli (kids version you can take out) INSTRUCTIONS Once zucchini is cleaned you can either spiralize it or use a grater. Combine the zucchini, bean sprouts, finely chopped celery, fresh herbs, peppers, option to add a bit of chopped ginger. Then sprinkle the lemon and lime juice along with coconut oil, liquid aminos and tahini. Mix lightly with your hands in a large bowl. Set aside, whilst the zucchini marinades you can blend the “sprinkles” in your food processor by adding the nutritional yeast, pine nuts, sesame seeds and chilli until it is a fine powder form. Use this to sprinkle on top of the salad at the end once dished up. 1-2 Portions
DIY Skincare with Kids: Sugar Body Scrub
Read moreKids love DIY and there’s nothing better than creating something easy that won’t just make themselves or a family member happy but is also great for the planet (and your wallet!) In our DIY Skincare with kids series, we give you recipes in 4 easy steps that can be made with accessible products that are both good for you and that will teach your kids the insights to the wonders of natural skincare at an early age. Now let’s get started with an easy one: a Sugar Body Scrub Get your mason jars ready 2. Get a mixing bowl, brown sugar and your choice oil 3. Add 1 cup of brown sugar and 1 cup of oil to the mixing bowl. Alternatively, add the sugar to your mason jar first and add the oil directly – like here: 4. Add 1-2 drops of your favourite essential oil Mix it well in the bowl or the jar to get the consistency right. Easy! You got yourself a sugar scrub!
Vanilla Strawberry Overnight Oatmeal with a Twist
Read moreHow would you (and your kiddos) like to have this for your brekkie? Looks like a desert right? Actually, it’s so healthy that you might want to prepare this without the family watching! But how do you make overnight oatmeal inspired breakfast without the oatmeal or some sort of grain? The answer might just shock you: Cauliflower. Whaaatt? Yes, let’s ditch the oatmeal. This versatile vegetable is a key ingredient in most of my healthy low carb swaps. I’ve therefore decided to experiment with this amazing vegetable, by even using it as an oatmeal substitute and get the best of both worlds! If you’re feeling exhausted and fed up with the gut annoyances out there, it might be that you are eating the commercially store-bought cereals? Well, not only are these gluten infused cereals known to play havoc within the gut, causing inflammation, but they also give you that uncomfortable bloated feeling that lasts half a day if not more. Your mind goes foggy and the irritability rises as the culprit of these high gluten cereals are so infused with sugars and super high in gluten. Also, as the sugars are the fast releasing or processed type, so your body will have trouble digesting them. Yes, we’ve all chia pudding and it is indeed delicious. But, why not explore what else we can add to the morning routine other than the usual breakfast? Perhaps you want to make your weekend breakfast exciting or even just get to grips with that simple hassle-free anytime breakfast for the busy week – especially post-workout. I feel with cauliflower the sky is truly the limit. This delicious overnight oatmeal has become one of my favourites – plus, it is a great low sugar, grain-free alternative. The key here is to always ensure you start with your base first. FOR THE “OATMEAL” BASE: 1 Cup Cauliflower Rice 1 Cup unsweetened Coconut milk 2 Tablespoons Chai seeds 1/2 Teaspoon of vanilla extract 1 1/2 Serving Vanilla Clean Lean Nuzest **(keep aside) (for kids version, add Nuzest Good Green stuff) Honeycomb is always a winner FOR THE COCONUT YOGHURT LAYERINGS: 1/2 Cup plain coconut yoghurt 1 Tablespoon Strawberry Clean Lean Nuzest (Kids version, just add some macadamia nut butter) 3 Fresh Strawberries INSTRUCTIONS Simmer the cauliflower in coconut milk 8min prior to you scooping it out into your glass jar. I prefer not to simmer it for a little less, as it dissolves really easily, and you don’t want it to overcook. Now let it cool. Whilst the base mix “oatmeal” is cooling, you can blend the strawberry coconut yoghurt mixture separately into your blender. If you don’t have a blender, just add the chunks of chopped strawberries within the mix, with a few tablespoons of coconut milk to make it a bit more liquid, before layering everything. Once you’ve done the above you can now start with the layers. First, scoop out a layer of your “vanilla oatmeal”, then a layer of your strawberry coconut yoghurt then another layer of oatmeal, then the last layer and some coconut yoghurt on top. Once layerings are done, cover and keep it overnight in the fridge for the next morning!! I prefer buying plain coconut yoghurt the natural sugarfree version, scoop whole foods have some good ones to choose from. ** PS option you can always the next morning cut some fresh strawberries or sprinkle some nuts onto the final layer before enjoying.
Indoor Play: Activities for Children When You Can’t Go Outside
Read moreIf it’s not the haze, it’s the rain! With the air quatliy being so bad in the past few weeks, it has been tough to do anything outdoors with kids. Pollution or heavy rain gives us no other choice than to keep our children indoors and find ways to get them occupied and entertained, all while keeping our keep our sanity as a family! So, what do we do then? Believe it or not, the possibilities are endless and obviously vary depending on what you like to do. Let me share some of the things that have helped us go through the long weekends indoor, at home. To maintain a nice balance, while keeping the peace, we need to provide activities in three main areas: 1) physical 2) social 3) individual No doubt, the most challenging is the physical area!
Stalk to top trio Cabbage Rice Salad with Vegan Cheese
Read moreOur first of many recipes from health and wellness coach, Charissa Areington! Every Friday, Charissa will spoil us with healthy, beautiful and tasty dishes to enjoy – and this week she’s adding a bonus recipe to get your week off to a good start! , Enjoy this easy no-fuss salad, serves 4-5 People as a side serving or optional use for your Meatless Monday dish: Why not just make use of the entire vegetable! This salad I used the entire stalk of the broccoli & cauliflower. Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage contain many different antioxidants. Cabbage is a low-calorie vegetable that is rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Inflammation isn’t always a bad thing. In fact, your body relies on the inflammatory response to protect against infection or speed up healing. This kind of acute inflammation is a normal response to an injury or infection. On the other hand, chronic inflammation that occurs over a long period of time is associated with many diseases, including heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease Cabbage contains powerful antioxidants that may help reduce inflammation. Cabbage is a good source of soluble fibre and plant sterols. Get your Vitamin K! Yes, cabbage is indeed an excellent source of Vit K. ____________________________ INGREDIENTS 1/2 Purple Cabbage 2 Medium Size broccoli heads & stem 1 Medium size cauliflower 5 Pre-soaked sun-dried tomatoes 1 Cup fresh baby tomatoes 1 Red pepper 1/3 cup Hulled Tahini 4 Tablespoons of Nutritional Yeast 1 Tablespoon Liquid Amino’s Braggs brand 1 Lemon juiced 2 Tablespoon of sesame seeds 1 Tablespoon of Pine Nuts 1 Tablespoon of Olive oil Your preference of balsamic vinegar ** Optional, not too much INSTRUCTIONS Break the cauliflower heads into smaller pieces along with the broccoli, the cabbage you need to chop into smaller pieces for ease when blending in your food processor. Place all the ingredients into your food processor apart from taking a small part or half of the cauliflower and the one head of the broccoli, keep these aside. Blend the rest of the cauliflower, broccoli and other ingredients, including the cabbage into your food processor and chop it all up until you get a rice look to the greens. Scrape out into your large salad bowl, taking the other pieces of cauliflower and broccoli then chop them in smaller chunky pieces, so there is texture to the salad, option to drizzle a little more tahini on top and nutritional yeast. ** Tip, we are using the whole vegetable, therefore this includes chopping the stalks. I took one stalk of the broccoli and thinly sliced it into strips. ENJOY!
My Bali Permaculture Course
Read morePerma…what? I’d heard this many times in the past week, when telling people why I’d be abandoning the annual Singapore highlight of the year, Formula 1, to go to Bali, alone. And to be honest, the concept wasn’t that clear until a friend of mine in the green industry told me she was going to expand her knowledge on permaculture on a two-week course in Bali. This had to be good I thought. For a smart woman like her to break up her time with work and family for two weeks, surely it would be more than digging and planting, seeding and harvesting. And of course, a bit like when you desperately want a baby and pregnant women appear everywhere, ‘permaculture’ now popped up, also when I wasn’tI looking. I began to do some research, and the idea of replacing my computer for some soil searching and education started to grow on me. And then, as I went on one of my repeated online green-envy searches at the Green School website, there it was again. A 5 day-course with everything from gardening and mushroom growing to fermenting and creating home care products. Right. I decided to click on the sign-up button to see what this permaculture was all about…with the added bonus of a break to Bali, just me.
Meat vs. Plant Based
Read moreWith the amazon on fire and tv-docs battling over which lifestyle is the more healthy and sustainable option, the discussion on meat vs. plant-based has never been more heated! It was therefore surprising and liberating to find a civilized discussion between two opponents on TheGaiaHood a few weeks back, where arguments were firm but respectful from both sides of this complex discussion. We didn’t want you to miss out, so we gave our two ladies, Emma Robertson Chia and Rene Wright the boxing gloves back on! Now, you can make your own decision on who’s bad and who’s good, when they go head to head, Meat vs. Plant-based:
Infertility – What can we do about it?
Read moreIt’s tough. When you’re two and want to be three so badly. When that wish for a baby becomes all-consuming and you’ve been through every medical check in the book and you just really would prefer to have a baby naturally. Well, perhaps you should take a break from the tests and see if there is something else you could be doing – the natural way? Karin G. Reiter looks into what we can do from a functional medicine perspective:
8 Tips on What to Do with Food Waste
Read moreWe deal with waste every day and most of us are becoming increasingly aware on how to reduce and reuse. Many of us also know that paper, glass and plastics can be recycled with some efforts, but what about food? No public bins are available in our housing for food waste, and as most people in Singapore live in flats or condominium’s, facilitating our own composting can seem like a challenge. Caroline Brennan, a member of our FB Group TheGaiaHood, asked the community for tips on how best to manage food waste. We thought the exchange of replies were just too good not to share, so we’ve collected the top answers from our parent group and passing them on to you!
Thai inspired Salad
10th October, 2019
DIY Skincare with Kids: Sugar Body Scrub
8th October, 2019
Vanilla Strawberry Overnight Oatmeal with a Twist
5th October, 2019
Indoor Play: Activities for Children When You Can’t Go Outside
2nd October, 2019
Stalk to top trio Cabbage Rice Salad with Vegan Cheese
30th September, 2019
My Bali Permaculture Course
26th September, 2019
Meat vs. Plant Based
24th September, 2019
Infertility – What can we do about it?
19th September, 2019
8 Tips on What to Do with Food Waste
16th September, 2019
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Thai inspired Salad
10th October, 2019
Vanilla Strawberry Overnight Oatmeal with a Twist
5th October, 2019
Stalk to top trio Cabbage Rice Salad with Vegan Cheese
30th September, 2019
Haze – Natural Ways to Protect our Children’s Health
The Haze looks like it’s not lifting in the near future and in the meantime, what do we do to protect ourselves and how can we make sure our kids’ health is optimal at this time?
Learn the best ways to support your child’s overall health through naturopathic medicine and nutrition. Get your family feeling their best!
– Get tips on how to protect your family from haze on an everyday basis.
– Learn how gut-healing can help a range of conditions from eczema, allergies, arthritis, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome and more
– Learn about the most nutritionally dense foods to incorporate into your diet for improved energy and cognition.
– Understand the importance of prebiotics, probiotics and fermented foods to nourish your kids’ microbiome
– Receive applicable tips to improve nutrition for your whole family
– Get familiar with Naturopathic Medicine and get nutrition advice – and hear how this preventative & integrative form of health care can help you and your family to thrive!
Tickets include: Talk +.snacks & ginger ale from Gutsy Foods + a gift from Nuzest Singapore !
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This talk is suitable for parents with infants, toddlers, school-age children and teens.
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30th September, 2019
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